Fifth Grade Finance

06/10/2022 — Rangebound…and Down

Like Kenny Powers stumbling his way through an increasingly quixotic attempt at reliving the baseball…

04/12/2022 — Frontrunning (A Crash Course)

Frontrunning.

02/27/2022 — Knee Jerk, Russian Style

It appears that the last round of financial sanctions heaped upon Russia may have spurred…

02/17/2022 — Vol Shy

As a trader, extended periods of volatility above historical volatility tend to…

01/06/2022 — Happy New Fear!

Nothing says “Happy New Year” like a new fear! Last year we fretted about the potential economic disaster…

06/05/2021 — Reverse Decay

Anyone with even the slightest understanding of basic options theory will tell you that the value of an option…

05/28/2021 — The FOMO Market

I learned about FOMO four years ago as friends laughed at my continued ignorance of modern terms, or as I like to call them, lazy abbreviations. I can appreciate this particular shorthand a bit more for its muppet-like goofy sound and its lexical proximity to FOMC (Federal Open…

05/17/2021 — Volatility (Slight Return)

After a month of very little (good) trade, last week gave a glimmer of hope that near-term…

04/08/2021 — The Dregs

The market continues to rise and volatility continues to fall — somewhat. Although the relationship between market…